Deborah wrote diary entries expressing her feelings towards her mother, one of her passages stating, “…my mother went through all that pain all by herself with those cold hearted doctor. Oh, how my father, said how they cooked her alive with radiation treatments. What went on in her mind those short months” (Skloot 195). By stating the details of Deborah’s personal diary entry Skloot is able to draw the readers into the story and getting them to imagine the intolerable pain Henrietta faced. The pathos appeal makes the reader emotionally involved by displaying the lack of empathy from the doctors, extending on the idea that the doctors only saw Henrietta as potential immortal cells and not as a real person fighting to see her newborn babies one last time. However, the ethos appeal still overrides pathos because Skloot’s time learning about these passionate stories gives her further credibility as an author thereby grasping the reader’s undivided
Deborah wrote diary entries expressing her feelings towards her mother, one of her passages stating, “…my mother went through all that pain all by herself with those cold hearted doctor. Oh, how my father, said how they cooked her alive with radiation treatments. What went on in her mind those short months” (Skloot 195). By stating the details of Deborah’s personal diary entry Skloot is able to draw the readers into the story and getting them to imagine the intolerable pain Henrietta faced. The pathos appeal makes the reader emotionally involved by displaying the lack of empathy from the doctors, extending on the idea that the doctors only saw Henrietta as potential immortal cells and not as a real person fighting to see her newborn babies one last time. However, the ethos appeal still overrides pathos because Skloot’s time learning about these passionate stories gives her further credibility as an author thereby grasping the reader’s undivided